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think and believe that the change in my actual 

 relation to the college, and as I hope, dear Agnes, 

 to you, will not be so great as you think. If it suits 

 you, I want to keep my teas just as before (adapting 

 the period of their duration to your judgment). 

 This wull I trust keep up my friendly relation with 

 the students and lead perhaps to other intercourse 

 with them. 



Cambridge, October 19, 1899 

 Dear Agnes: Thank you with all my heart for 

 your note, — that we have grown to be such friends 

 is indeed a happiness to me, and I only hope we may 

 still w^ork together as dear friends may w ithout other 

 tie. It grieves me more than I can say to think of 

 causing pain to the colleagues with whom I have 

 worked so long in the most harmonious companion- 

 ship, — and yet I am sure that I am right in taking 

 this step before it is forced upon me. It does not 

 seem so great a change to me as to my co-workers 

 perhaps, because I have so strong a hope that I may 

 still keep my personal relation to Radcliffe, still 

 be in touch with all its interests and with the stu- 

 dents — and more than all with you, dear Partner. 

 Your affectionate old friend, 



Elizabeth C. Agassiz 



I have written a letter to President Eliot — It 

 seemed fitting to apprise him myself of the change. 



